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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem Everyone Has a Choice read from the book Partial Nudity live 7/2/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery
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of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic 7/2/14 WHERE SHE READS THIS POEM at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago
video See YouTube video 3/21/17 for World Poetry Day of Janet Kuypers’ set of “Short World Poems on World Poetry Day” at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “Every Street Corner”, “Our Lady of Mercy”, “shoe prints on the toilet seat”, “unclean left hands”, “Get His Product to Town”, “Ever Consumed Goat”, “Moros y Christianos”, “middle eastern man in front of me”, “Obama on the Subway”, “Poverty in America”, “Flying to China”, “Building Houses out of Pallets” and “Everyone Has a Choice” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
video See YouTube video 3/21/17 for World Poetry Day of Janet Kuypers’ set of “Short World Poems on World Poetry Day” at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “Every Street Corner”, “Our Lady of Mercy”, “shoe prints on the toilet seat”, “unclean left hands”, “Get His Product to Town”, “Ever Consumed Goat”, “Moros y Christianos”, “middle eastern man in front of me”, “Obama on the Subway”, “Poverty in America”, “Flying to China”, “Building Houses out of Pallets” and “Everyone Has a Choice” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
video See 3/4/18 YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Future Job Options”, “Us, Actually Touching” and “Everyone Has a Choice” from her book “Part of my Pain” at “Recycled Reads(Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See 3/4/18 YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Future Job Options”, “Us, Actually Touching” and “Everyone Has a Choice” from her book “Part of my Pain” at “Recycled Reads(Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, and “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bridge” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, and “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bridge” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things”, “Been a World Leader”, and “Enough’s Enough” from section 2 of the from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” on 10/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things”, “Been a World Leader”, and “Enough’s Enough” from section 2 of the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” on 10/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading

Everyone Has a Choice

Janet Kuypers
5/12/12

“I’m visiting
the third poorest nation,
I think,
but everyone
is just so happy
around here.
And this blew my mind,
so I had to ask a local
why everyone seems
so happy,
and they told me
that ‘here,
everyone has a choice.
You can either
choose to be happy,
or choose to be sad.
And we choose
to be happy.’
And you know,
I think they’re happy
because
they carry nine
hundred pounds of
I don’t give a shit...
Because here,
you might not
be able to choose
to wealth your way
out of this rut,
you can at least
choose to be happy.”


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